And then we agreed that location transparency was bad in RMI, and then again in EJB. It's regular as the tides. In a couple years you'll hear everyone talking about how stupid the Cloud is and everyone will be buying their own servers. Then we'll decide that peer-peer is the way and the light.
Didn't Vonnegut have a line about how it affects you to see the same mistakes repeat over and over?
Touché. Every time we hit a new balance in the inequalities we have to re-evaluate all our answers.
I guess what bugs me is not the mind changing (I do that all the time myself). It's that those without a history lesson behave as if this is a bloody revolution, and they have to pick sides. And the people who think switching solutions will magically fix all of our problems.
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And then we agreed that location transparency was bad in RMI, and then again in EJB. It's regular as the tides. In a couple years you'll hear everyone talking about how stupid the Cloud is and everyone will be buying their own servers. Then we'll decide that peer-peer is the way and the light.
Didn't Vonnegut have a line about how it affects you to see the same mistakes repeat over and over?
Its more about bandwidth vs capacity vs dollars. The optimum changes as the technologies change.
Touché. Every time we hit a new balance in the inequalities we have to re-evaluate all our answers.
I guess what bugs me is not the mind changing (I do that all the time myself). It's that those without a history lesson behave as if this is a bloody revolution, and they have to pick sides. And the people who think switching solutions will magically fix all of our problems.